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Article: Medicaid managed care and urban poor people: implications for social work.
- Article from:
- Health and Social Work
- Article date:
- August 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 National Association of Social Workers. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Managed care is rapidly becoming the predominant method of financing and delivering health care to Medicaid recipients. The shift from Medicaid fee-for-service arrangements to managed care has important implications for the health care available to low-income and uninsured people living in U.S. cities. It also presents significant new challenges to the financial viability of urban "safety-net" providers - that is, the public hospitals, academic medical centers, community health centers, local health department clinics, school-based clinics, and other community-based health care providers that traditionally serve residents of low-income urban communities.
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